Spike Art Magazine

Spike is a magazine for art and cultural criticism, mixing writing on themes urgent and forever unresolved, from “Web3” and “Vulnerability” to “Plants” and “Patriarchy.” Spike is visually splashy, by turns pushy, poetic, unexpected – and not shy to start an argument. Featuring literary luminaries like Nicolas Bourriaud, Jamieson Webster, Dean Kissick, McKenzie Wark, Joanna Walsh, and Jeppe Ugelvig, Spike has enjoyed a profound impact on art and its discourse in Europe and North America for two decades and counting. Founded in 2004 and still published by the artist Rita Vitorelli, Spike is one of the last remaining independent art magazines.

A digital subscription gives you access to the complete online archive of Spike Art Magazine since issue one, Autumn 2004 – that's 21 years, and 15.000 pages. 

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Or, it seems, without a few thousand followers and a designer stove. Food is everywhere these days, from jello-sculpting reels and fermentation pop-ups to bike deliveries of so many global cuisines. Our culture’s new A-listers are chefs, their restaurants no longer just stages for social performance, but works of total theater. How is this buffet of new ideas, techniques, and above all delicious images changing the flavor of art, which, going back to the cave paintings, has dealt with foods less digestible to our feeds – the slimy, the rotten, even the cannibal? In an era of shared plates when the camera eats first, can foodification even help art find its own umami? Spike's spring menu is seasonal, promise – there’s just one nature morte.